"We Love Andrea" was created to update Andrea's friends as she went through a difficult journey. After her second heart transplant when her pulse began to speed up she was given a pacemaker, then a Heart Mate II or LVAD. She was in the Stollery Children's Hospital, then the Mazankowski heart unit in Edmonton, Alberta for 7 months. However, she peacefully died on May 11, 2011 when the rest of her heart and other organs could handle the strain no longer. If you come to this blog, pray for her family and friends, remember to tell your friends you love them, then sign your organ donor card.

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Still on Dialysis

Hi Everyone
 
Just returned from the hospital after another long day.  It was mostly unchanged, Andrea slept a lot after a poor night, her stomach was not ready for the nutrition they tried to give via an NJ tube, so her night was interrupted quite often.  They discontinued her feeds directly to her stomach via tube, she is still getting nutrition IV, so she is not starving, they might start her on feeds again tomorrow.  They removed her nose packing which she had for 2 days because of her nose bleed and also removed one chest drainage tube, she still has 2 more to go.  She is still intubated as she is not ready to breathe again completely on her own, still too drowsy.  Dialysis has been going now for 24 hours and they have removed around 2 litres of fluid.  Her creatinine level dropped from 303 to 200 in 12 hours, her Urea dropped from 40 to 31 overnight also.  Both changes are in the right direction, they plan to continue dialysis for awhile yet.  Hopefully tomorrow they will be able to extubate her.
 
Thanks, Maynard

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